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Demo?

Still trying to understand some console commands, and even after looking through some guides to Quake Live I can't find much about demoes. Can someone explain to me what demoes are and what their purpose is?

A demo is basically a record of the gamestates your client receives. This effectively allow you to replay a match but it's not a video format : the engine has to interpret to data and recreate everything just like when you're playing.

"cg_autoAction" 1 and 3 record them automatically.
"record" does so manually
"cl_demoRecordMessage" let you hide the demo record message.
"demo demoname" let you play it back

You could download the Quake Live Demo Tools. It showes all of the demos you and only YOU recorded. Correct me if I'm wrong I think you could recieve demos from friends over e-mail and view them on QLDT.